GPS Team
Adaliz Diaz
GPS Spanish Training - Trainer
GPS en Español Panel
Bio coming
Aida Ruiz-Batiste
Spanish Training Team Coach
Aida, a Latina woman and mother of 2 children. She has spent 25 years working in the Human Service field. This work encompasses many areas of service, including postpartum. She held the first postpartum group for Latina woman at the Brightwood Health Center. Aida looks forward to her continued service.
Alejandra Zorrilla
MASStrong Support Group Facilitator in English and Spanish
Alejandra is a Bolivian born in the United States and is a seeker of truth and love who tries to walk this earth with compassion and an open heart. She has academic training in Social and Audiovisual Communication, and experience working in social networks, cinema, advertising, and NGOs. Alejandra feels very blessed to be able to be part of GPS and to be able to be at the service of others, from listening and containment. In her free time, she loves creating, drawing, spending time with loved ones, doing yoga, walking, and being in nature.
Alex Iles
MASStrong Support Group Facilitator
Open Support Group Backup Facilitator
Alex is a Life Coach supporting teen and young Parents, and parents of LGBTQ+ youth He has lived experience as a teen dad and parenting LGBTQ+ children as well as supporting teen and young parents. Alex understands that men and fathers need more support and more opportunities to speak vulnerably about their emotions and struggles and facilitates those supportive spaces.
Co-Founder
Annette Cycon
Co-Founder and Co-President
Annette has been a social worker, group facilitator and trainer for over 30 years. As the Founder and former Director of Training of MotherWoman, over 17 years, she developed programs and is well known as an advocate for mothers and a trainer in Perinatal Mood Disorders, particularly regarding the impact of structural social justice issues such as poverty, race and culture on maternal mental health. Annette has spearheaded GPS’s international program bringing GPS’s maternal mental health to program to Guatemala and other Spanish speaking communities.
Annette Cycon
Co-Founder and Co-President
Annette has been a social worker, group facilitator and trainer for over 30 years. As the Founder and former Director of Training of MotherWoman, over 17 years, she developed programs and is well known as an advocate for mothers and a trainer in Perinatal Mood Disorders, particularly regarding the impact of structural social justice issues such as poverty, race and culture on maternal mental health. Annette has spearheaded GPS’s international program bringing GPS’s maternal mental health to program to Guatemala and other Spanish speaking communities.
MASStrong Support Groups Facilitator in Spanish and GPS Support Group Facilitator - Spanish, Latinas
Annette Cycon
Co-Founder and Co-President
Annette has been a social worker, group facilitator and trainer for over 30 years. As the Founder and former Director of Training of MotherWoman, over 17 years, she developed programs and is well known as an advocate for mothers and a trainer in Perinatal Mood Disorders, particularly regarding the impact of structural social justice issues such as poverty, race and culture on maternal mental health. Annette has spearheaded GPS’s international program bringing GPS’s maternal mental health to program to Guatemala and other Spanish speaking communities.
Argelia Alcantar
MASStrong Support Groups Facilitator - English and Spanish
GPS Support Group Facilitator - Spanish, Latinas
Areglia is a mother of two children and has a B.A. in Psychology as well as many other certifications related to nurturing parenting and perinatal mood disorders. She loves working with and supporting her community. Argelia has worked as a community health worker in a perinatal program and as a parent coach for approximately 10 years. As a Doula, she works with parents, supporting them during their birth and post-partum journey. She recently started a Spanish mom’s support group after realizing the lack of resources for Latina mothers in her area.
Betty Doherty
Betty is a woman in long-term recovery and has held many positions in the field of recovery in MA since 1998. Betty is currently a Family Recovery Support Specialist with the First Steps Together Program working with moms and dads who have substance dependency on their recovery and parenting journey. Betty enjoys leading GPS Recovery groups for both men and women. She also serves as Board Chair for Self Esteem Boston, a program that helps women feel better about themselves from the inside out.
MASStrong Translation
Cherline Arnoux, MSW
MASStrong Translation
Cherline, is a proud graduate from Wheelock College with a Master’s in Social Work; currently working as a Behavioral Health Clinician for Boston Public Health Commission. Cherline is a co-creator of the Black Women in Motherhood Support Group and is currently working on a curriculum to serve black women in postpartum care within the city of Boston. She seeks to better serve her community by participating in the GPS Group Peer Support Facilitator Training as well as completing a certificate program with Simmons University focusing on Relational and Multi-Contextual Trauma.
Black Leaders Support Group Facilitator
Chris Leonard
Black Leaders Support Group Facilitator
Chris (she/her) is a skillful process facilitator who brings mindful awareness from her training as a Zen Shiatsu therapist into her work supporting workers and communities impacted by traumatic events and grief. She is based in Toronto, Ontario in Canada.